So there's this new Flash-animated series called "Slacker Cats" that's showing up soon on ABC Family:
Now, maybe this is the dutiful South Park-trained social reactionary in me talking, but... how do you promote a show with phrases like "It violates all standards of public decency!" —and then follow it up with "Premiering soon... on ABC Family"?
What person who watches a channel called ABC Family will be encouraged to tune in for a show that audaciously flouts the supposed standards of decorum for which they're not watching Comedy Central or HBO in the first place? Presumably the very reason the channel exists is so parents can plunk their kids down in front of it without having to worry that some Adult Swim-esque show will jump out from behind the bushes and carry them away while they're preparing dinner. So what genius at ABC bought this show?
It's not enough to have Star Trek on Spike TV and The Man Show on G4 and Pee-Wee's Playhouse on Cartoon Network, I guess; in the interest of inexorable channel interbreeding, we have to put rude-crude-and-nasty animated prime-time shows on a channel labeled Family. Now that's brilliant marketing.
Brian Tiemann
